WHAT’S INSIGHT
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By Erik Lambertson Corporate Communications Manager
Alethea Moroney, student, and Daphne Hitchcock, local braille teacher, reading one of the braille panels in the Orcas exhibition.
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Braille and other improvements to accessibility in the exhibitions
Visitors to the Royal BC Museum during the COVID-19 pandemic have become used to following directional signs, wearing masks and relying on tools like styluses to animate touchscreens. But one element of the Orcas: Our Shared Future exhibition demands touch—the braille panels that line the walls. Accessibility, along with equity, diversity and inclusion, is a priority for the Royal BC Museum. In recent years, the museum has worked hard to ensure that it provides its visitors with equitable access, no matter where they come from or what challenges they face—and a 60-year-old building certainly comes with its fair share of challenges to physical accessibility. (continues next page)
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